this is news coming to you live from berlin and it was a choice almost no one had expected after days of torture negotiations european leaders nominate also left pundit alliance germany's defense minister but the news most powerful jolt opposition to her is already growing and the european parliament has its own big decisions to make our correspondent maxwell fund is covering the story. who will become the next president of the european parliament it is one of the top jobs in the european union and so far we have 4

candidates that have presented themselves to this house behind me the parliament in strasburg the front runner is a social democrat from italy. also coming up an italian judge releases the german skipper of a migrant rescue ship after she was arrested defying in order not to doff italy's interior minister has called for tougher treatment and says he will expel her. plus thing will end and the u.s. battle for a place in the women's world cup final will go to leone for the highlights of a tense and dramatic match. hello i'm terry marchin good to have you with us after days of wrangling the 28 e.u. member countries have agreed on their nominees for the top job all. prize move the

leaders nominated german defense minister funded law and for president of the european commission the conservative christian democrat was nominated to replace john clarke after most of the front runners for the post were rejected belgian prime minister showed me show was one of the names being floated for the top job but in a last minute reshuffling the liberal politician was nominated to replace donald tusk as council president well international monetary fund chief pushed jean gard received unanimous banking backing i should say has the next president of the european central bank if confirmed a separate conservative would be the 1st woman to head the c.v. and spanish foreign minister josep has been put forward as the candidate for e.u. foreign policy chief the socialist would replace frederica mother rini as the e.u.'s top diplomat but the biggest hurdle in this political race has still to be

cleared the european parliament has to approve the lineup and the social democrats have already set themselves against on the alliance nomination joined now by de w.'s max hoffman he's in strausberg where the european parliament is meeting today so max the ball is now in the e.u. parliament's court what do any p.s. make of the nominees they've been given for the top jobs. there terry you just said that there is strong opposition especially among the social democrats that are hugely disappointed because of 2 things 1st of all they were very close to having the top job for themselves with their lead candidate or a spitz in county as it is called funds to moments and the 2nd one is that they've said all along we will only accept somebody who actually was the lead candidate spits in county dodd for one of the political groups here and so especially the german social democrats the s.p.

the are dead set against the lion and i asked their boss cutter you know barley who used to be the minister of justice in germany whether she would risk an institutional crisis by voting against from the line and this is what she had to say. this is already an institutional crisis because the council obviously ignores what the parliament has stated clearly from day one from. long before the election that we are only going to vote for one of the shots and that is what the parliament and all the all the parliamentary groups have said all the time so that. the council has decided to ignore us and that is already cost of the crisis. obviously the e.u. is having having a tough time max choosing its leaders but how much of

a crisis is this really. well to be fair none of those spits and catarina barley just mentioned would have had a majority here in this house in the european parliament and none of them had a majority among the leaders in the e.u. council so that's what made this crisis but there are still 2 weeks time was enough on the line we'll have the time to try to convince the parliamentarians actually she's coming here today to strasbourg to do just that for she's going to talk to the conservatives her own party but the opposition is so strong that it's not a done deal it'll be tough for her to go to gain those votes and if the european parliament doesn't vote in favor of her if she doesn't have a majority then we're back to square one and i think it's fair to say that then yes we have an institutional crisis ok there we were talking about the commission now let's talk about the european parliament where you are the european parliament is voting on its own president today tell us about that. yeah they're for candidates

for example from the greens another german scott keller but she doesn't have a lot of chances at the moment because what's happened is that this position is also part of that package deal that was concluded in brussels yesterday and so informally at least that's what i said the head of the european council this position right here is supposed to be social democratic so the social democrats nominated and italian former journalist for the position david and he is the front runner because neither the conservatives nor the liberals have nominated their own candidate so we expect them to vote in favor of the social democratic candidate to make this whole package deal work max thank you very much t w is much talk on that in strasbourg. well let's take a closer look now at. lyon if confirmed as european commission president the 60

year old would become one of the most powerful politicians in the u.s certainly the most powerful in any events to sion but as we have already seen her nomination is not without controversy and in her current role as germany's defense minister she has also faced many challenges. she's considered a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel underline german defense minister christian conservative and long time politician a medical doctor and mother of 7 funded line joined medical c.d.u. party in the early ninety's she later headed the ministry of family and women before serving as minister of labor as germany's 1st female defense minister funded line aimed to revamp the armed forces but she's recently drawn criticism for poor management in the ranks several scandals including revelations of far right extremists in the military equipment failures and deadly military plane crashes

have plate tenure. a european a tot's fluent in both english and french as well as german funded line has long been seen as a possible successor to machall as chancellor all more recently as the next head of nato european leaders have now agreed to choose her as the next president of the e.u. commission if the european parliament induces her she would be the 1st woman to fill the influential post. let's bring in deede of years hans but our political correspondent so germany's defense minister was upon the line has been nominated to head the european commission what's the political reaction here in. well the 1st reaction frankly was one of surprise when this name was 1st probably sometime in the more going on tuesday morning and nobody really was reckoning on this woman

becoming the head of the european commission there had been some talk that she might be interested in one of the positions of commissioner in other words something like a minister of some sort in the european commission but that she would get the top job that nobody expected when the surprise had kind of settled in i think it specially the conservatives here in germany were very pleased that this woman from her from their own ranks was going to was likely to be the top politician in the european union and at the same time being a woman is also a significant signal to the world and to the voters so also i think in the end i'm going to market is considered as having done a deal here which once again confirms that she has significant influence in the european union now germany actually abstained in a formal way from voting on or sort of on the lines nomination why. the background

to that is that i'm going to marco is not governing on her and the conservatives do not govern on the urn here in germany they are in coalition with the social democrats and as we've just heard from max the social democrats are very vehemently against the appointment of also life on the line they are saying that this whole process of election towards the european parliament which put forward this idea of top candidates being voted for by the voters now somebody is getting the job that has not the election that has not been known to the voters that has not presented herself to the voters and the social democrats feel that that is undermining european democracy and therefore criticize it very strongly i'm going to america as a kind of taking into account this opposition abstained from voting. thank you very much d.w. political correspondent. now let's look at some other stories making headlines around the world today at least 40 people died when an airstrike hit

a migrant detention center in the libyan capital tripoli officials said another 80 had been injured libya's un backed government of national accord has blamed the attack on the self-styled libyan national army it denies being behind the strike. demonstrators burned tires and blocked roads across israel to protest against the shooting dead of an 18 year old ethiopian israeli by an off duty policeman on sunday activists have been angered by a perceived systematic discrimination by police towards israel's ethiopian minority . rush's defense ministry says a fire on board a deep sea submersible has killed 14 crew members also said the vessel was surveying the seabed north of russia but local media reports say the vessel was actually a secretive nuclear powered mini submarine crew were apparently poisoned by you know. the german skipper of the migrant rescue ship sea watch

has moved as been moved to a secret location because of security fears kept in kabul of a kid to had earlier been released from house arrest by an italian court she was taken into custody on sunday after taking her ship carrying 40 migrants into port on the italian island of lampedusa in doing so she collided with a customs patrol but the italian judge said the right that right kate was just doing her duty saving human lives when she died the ship in defiance of italian authorities. a reporter i mean as if it is in the society in city of actor again towhee told us more about the reaction to corona rock it is release this is the apartment workout all of i keep to spent the past 2 days under house arrest there was celebration here last night as the news came that a judge. ruled against an order to have her held in italian jail the judge said she

was only doing her duty to save human lives when she disobeyed italian police and brought her ship to port the decision angered italian deputy prime minister mateo salvini who said he to will now be expelled from italy and despite the show of support here and i'd be gentle for a woman many italians see as a hero there is also widespread support for anti immigration stance many here don't see how great as a lifesaver they see her as an agent of a foreign power taking her ship down to the libyan coast to pick up migrants and forcibly delivering them to italy's doorstep for themselves as the hero protecting italy's so-called sovereignty even at the expense of migrants lives. in many parts of the world today it's international plastic bag free day the european activists behind this movement hope it will highlight the damage plastic waste is doing to our planet and persuade people to find other solutions here are

a few shocking statistics the world produces $300000000.00 tons of plastic waste every year just about the weight of the entire human population $10000000.00 tons that end up in the world's oceans a lack of effective waste management in asia is said to be the biggest source of the problem 90 percent of ocean plastic is carried by river such as the young sea and the yellow river in china and the gun g.'s in india where much of this plastic waste degrades and breaks down into microscopic particles you can see just how small they are they are often ingested by fish and then eaten by humans are rubbish permeates our oceans including here the deepest place on earth 11 kilometers below the surface of the pacific ocean in the marianna trench china announced 2 years ago that it would no longer accept plastic waste from other countries for

recycling and that's put pressure on other developing countries that have become destinations for dumping. this is canadian plastic waste that was supposed to end up in the philippines right now it's burning up in a canadian incinerator the government says it's being safely treated in line with national standards the waste was sent to the philippines years ago following a legal dispute the government in manila hired a shipping company to send it back to canada. and this is what happens when southeast asian countries accept western waste. mountains of garbage from france germany. and other european countries items are used once and thrown away malaysian activists found this site next to a palm oil plantation. we have followed though i 3.

and then but. the stuff i treat so those. cost a lot. of the problem has gotten worse since china stopped accepting waste shipments in 27 team since then millions of tons of waste have been shipped to thailand vietnam malaysia and indonesia environmentalists have called on the countries to stop accepting waste they also say the solution isn't just local the producers of plastic also have to change their ways. but i think way. and we are kidding always felt by you see. we took a bus to. the nation and they trust to our country. the european union has promised to stop exporting its plastic waste to developing countries but only in 2021 so for now the trash mountains of malaysia and its

neighbors will just keep growing. well for more now i'm joined by w.'s thompson walker who focuses on environmental issues for d.w. good to see you times and a growing number of countries are banning plastic bags germany is not one of them why is germany not showing leadership on this issue i guess that's a question that i put in environments 3 spokesman quite recently and his response was germany has such waste disposal and. recycling facilities that it doesn't actually need to have a back what they did a couple of years back was to introduce a voluntary fee under which retailers could say ok our customers will be asked to pay a nominal amount of money $0.20 perhaps to have a plastic bag and they say that that has been fairly successful and it has cut the number of bags that germans use by 2 thirds so the average now germans the average

german uses 24 plastic bags i mean people in the country so the government is saying that everything's fine but you're an environmental journalist you focus on this are things really fun well no i mean the paper just kind of bear that out and no it's not fine and the other thing is that the predictions suggest that the amount of plastic that's going to be produced going forward is just going to skyrocket you know we're nowhere near the end of finishing manufacture. what would it mean if a ban on plastic bags were to be implemented in germany would it be hugely disruptive. i don't i don't think it would be i mean i asked a whole bunch of people recently what would you do how would you respond to should it be banned and when i most of them said oh yeah let's ban it one guy went so i said would you how would you respond should germany banned plastic bags he said absolutely ban them you know and i said but you're holding a plastic bag and he said yeah but that's just because i can still have one and

then i won't use them ok now the e.u. has recently decided to ban certain single single use plastics do you see this happening globally do you see a global ban on this kind of plastic plastic bags single use plastics happening i mean there are definitely more and more bands coming into effect but as i said at the same time production is increasing absolutely on the base and i don't think that we're anywhere near an outright ban on simply use plastics films and thank you so much d w environmental com correspondent townsend walker. something else afflicting the environment particularly in europe right now wildfires the largest wildfire ever seen in northeastern germany has been brought under control for days flames have been raging through the region covering more than 1200 pictures of open land forest entire villages had to be evacuated in part fighters worked around the clock they finally succeeded this morning fire receded for the

1st time. our correspondent. in the town of teen close to the wildfire and she's been covering this story from the beginning tessa this fire was huge and firefighters could hardly get near it i understand they've brought it under control now how did they manage to do it. yeah exactly i mean we have to keep in mind that still 800 hectares. so the firefighters here are far from being relaxed but so 5 is under control and how do you get his so what they did is they took out the old military maps off this training ground which has the forest on it and they looked at where the passages went through this forest back in the days and of c. they were wildly overgrown by now so the military came in and pushed through these passageways and creates a paths for the firefighters that came in afterwards so they created

a circle around the bonding flames and this is now secured and that basically waiting for the flames to extinguish by themselves inside this. now one factor making this kind of fire so dangerous and so hard to tackle is the presence of unexploded munitions left over from war games world war 2 this is a problem in many parts of germany what are authorities doing about it. yeah it's exactly what you saying a lot of people i know to see talking about the why. ties here in the ammunition problem but they're around a $175.00 areas only here in the state of make them before contaminated with ammunition and just to give you an idea that's the 1000 hectares of forest land contaminated and that represents about 10 percent of the forest area here in the recent so on a national level. to realize that there is

a problem but it will cost hundreds of millions to get rid of this ammunition and it's not only a financial problem it's also a time problem because it's very time consuming to get rid of them so i know that they haven't really proposed any concrete solution but at least they are aware of this problem by no said thank you so much for bringing us up to date there in look team. soccer in the defending champions of the women's world cup the united states have reached the final match after a dramatic $21.00 win over england all the goals came in the 1st half but most of the drama came close to the final with. for. the united states have been quick counts of the blocks at this woke up against england was no different than many thanks to billy's christian press posting in the back post to shock replacements and making repeat justifying her place in the site. england could have been

overruled but they hit back so you know. why we. should go number 6 at the tournament. but anything she could do so you could they go at it morgan she had it in the stuff and the team moved and she calmly said the bracing her 30th in a very english way is that having been choking on that city they were positively crying and sweet by the end the video referee having earlier choked off a goal for offsides helps team vs a penalty step captain step. she. us grief a sigh of relief a day with the disaster when his. sports correspondent oliver moody joins us now from really all where the dramatic match took place all the of the favorites the u.s. or through but they really had to work for it didn't they they certainly did yeah and the initial stages actually looked like they might belong. they

started with that kind of ferocious pace and power that we've become so used to seeing from the u.s. in the opening stages of games. dominated the opening exchanges and deservedly took the late but england did very well to break that u.s. style of dominance and level the schools and after that the much actually took place on a very kind of even so saying the teams were very evenly matched and england as we saw could even of equalized towards the end but of course the u.s. has so much quality and not say and alex morgan is one of the world's best strike is and she proved it again on the biggest stage the world cup semifinal england came so close to tying the match with the penalty what was the atmosphere like in the stadium at that moment. it was very tense i was sitting around americans at the game and they were very loud throughout the match but when the referee went over to the video screen to check the replay of the incident they went very very quiet and they stayed quiet right up until i listened i pulled off

the site that ultimately put the us into the world cup final a huge moment for them a hugely disappointing moment for england of course and it wasn't the only one they also had a goal disallowed for a very fractional offside ellen white again coming close of course to getting on the scoresheet again. 2 moments that will hurt the england players for years to come i'm sure even if they are rightly very proud of that foreman says at this tournament now we heard from them right back after the game let's hear what she had to say about those 2 moments. obviously because medicates. decision offsides and offside we're not going to argue with that but you know it's these are the fine lines in football and in a semi final pushed us a right to the edge. you know even at the end of the game we still looked and even with 10 men unfortunately that's the way. touch the way football goes indeed all of the defending champions are or in the final again can they be stopped.

i think they can i mean they still look like the best team in the world at the moment and they've proved that really by beating some very tough opposition the likes of england and france of course the hosts in the in the quarterfinals they've also beaten sweden already at the tournament one of the other teams left in the play in a semifinal against the netherlands but look the u.s. as i say of taking the lead early on in every game so far they've scored in the opening 12 minutes of every single game they've had at the world cup so far so the key for whoever plays them in the final is to keep them out for that opening kind of stage the opening stretch of the game and if they can do that then ultimately they're not at a disadvantage from such an early stage and they've got a chance a chance of beating the best team in the world probably all all of our body of data over your sports thank you so much. in chile in argentina tens of thousands of people watched in all as the sun vanished behind the moon in

a total eclipse of the 2 countries and the only inhabited places on earth where the rare sight to be seen an eclipse could be seen from self the self serve it to south american continental oven 1000 kilometers away. coming up next it's business news with ben presuming you're watching news from berlin thanks for being with us.

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